Recovery Assurance: The Critical Success Factor for Cloud-based DR

Mike Tyson famously observed “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” The question is, will your Disaster Recovery plan survive that punch and save the day? In this presentation, Jim Whalen of Taneja Group and Dave LeClair of Unitrends will discuss cloud-based Disaster Recovery, how Recovery Assurance is an absolutely crucial component of any DR plan and why choosing a DRaaS provider needs to be on everyone’s short list of options when developing their Disaster Recovery plans.

RIDE supports developing in notebooks, editor, RMarkdown, shiny app, Bokeh and other frameworks. Supported by R-Brain’s optimized kernels, R and Python 3 have full language support, IntelliSense, debugger and data view. Autocomplete and content assistant are available for SQL and Python 2 kernels. Spark (standalone) and Tesnsorflow images are also provided.

Using Docker in managing workspaces, this platform provides an enhanced secure and stable development environment for users with a powerful admin control for controlling resources and level of access including memory usage, CPU usage, and Idle time.

The latest stable version of IDE is always available for all users without any need of upgrading or additional DevOps work. R-Brain also delivers customized development environment for organizations who are able to set up their own Docker registry to use their customized images.

The RIDE Platform is a turnkey solution that increases efficiency in your data science projects by enabling data science teams to work collaboratively without a need to switch between tools. Explore and visualize data, share analyses, all in one IDE with root access, connection to git repositories and databases.

In a recent survey of enterprise hybrid cloud users, the Evaluator Group saw that nearly 60% of respondents indicated that lack of interoperability is a significant technology-related issue that they must overcome in order to move forward. In fact, lack of interoperability was chosen above public cloud security and network security as significant inhibitors. This webcast looks at enterprise hybrid cloud objectives and barriers with a focus on cloud interoperability within the storage domain and the SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative to promote interoperability and portability of data stored in the cloud.

In this last of a 3 part webinar series presented by Greenlight, Micro Focus Product Management and Greenlight group will provide an overview of the current state of IT Operations Management technologies running on enterprise grade cloud native technology stacks. Join us, and come up to speed as the experts provide a high level overview of Network Operations, Hybrid Cloud, and Datacenter Automation suites from the Micro Focus ITOM portfolio running in a Docker & Kubernetes orchestrated environment.

Public, private and hybrid cloud are nothing new, but protecting sensitive data stored on these servers is still of the utmost concern. The NSA is no exception.

It recently became publicized that the contents of a highly sensitive hard drive belonging to the NSA (National Security Agency) were compromised. The virtual disk containing the sensitive data came from an Army Intelligence project and was left on a public AWS (Amazon Web Services) storage server, not password-protected.

This is one of at least 5 other leaks of NSA-related data in recent years. Not to mention the significant number of breaches and hacks we’ve experienced lately, including Yahoo!, Equifax, WannaCry, Petya, and more.

The culprit in this case? Unprotected storage buckets. They have played a part in multiple other recent exposures, and concern is on the rise. When it comes to storing data on public cloud servers like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Rackspace and more, what are the key responsibilities of Storage Architects and Engineers, CIOs and CTOs to avoid these types data leaks?

Tune in with Chris Vickery, Director of Cyber Risk Research at UpGuard and the one who discovered the leak, along with George Crump, Chief Steward, Storage Switzerland, David Linthicum, Cloud Computing Visionary, Author & Speaker, Charles Goldberg, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Thales e-Security, and Mark Carlson, Co-Chair, SNIA Technical Council & Cloud Storage Initiative, for a live panel discussion on this ever-important topics.

High-Performance Computing (HPC) paradigms were born from the need to apply sophisticated analytics to large volumes of data gathered. The rise of open source and increased affordable hardware offerings helped Big Data to become an alternative approach.

As HPC and Big Data continue their own trajectories, they borrow ideas and learn from each other. How does artificial intelligence impact this and how can these technologies benefit one another in 2018 and beyond?

Micro Focus Product Management and Greenlight group will dive into the details of Micro Focus’ Enterprise Grade IT Service Management Automation and Operations Bridge product suites - showcasing the most recent advances that ease bringing cloud native capabilities to the mainstream IT Operations organizations.

As the result of extensive primary end-user and multi-vendor research, including responses from 700+ IT decision makers, Taneja Group has learned that an increasing number of organizations are more motivated than ever before to move their applications in the cloud. However, they prefer to easily move those applications between on-premises and multiple clouds without having to modify the underlying storage infrastructure.

Join us as we unpack this emerging market category along with SoftNAS, one of the vendors at the forefront of this trend.

In this webinar we’ll cover:

• How multi-cloud primary storage can span multiple cloud environments and mitigate the risk of moving to the public cloud

• Lifting and shifting applications to a single public cloud or multiple public clouds without re-engineering the applications

About your hosts:
Taneja Group’s Senior Analysts Jeff Kato and Jeff Byrne will discuss the research behind the Taneja Group’s Multi-Cloud Primary Storage market category. They will be joined by Rick Braddy, Founder, CEO and CTO at SoftNAS, who will describe how the SoftNAS Cloud Data Platform provides the best pathway to shift applications among on-premises, AWS, and Azure clouds.

Join us for the first in a series of monthly webinars, presented by Greenlight Group, where Micro Focus and Greenlight Group will provide an introductory session of Micro Focus's container orchestrated IT Operations Management platform. In this webinar, Torrey Jones, Greenlight Group Principal Consultant, will talk through the basics of Micro Focus’s cloud native Container Deployment Foundation – a Docker and Kubernetes centric game changing platform for IT Operations Management in the Enterprise. Prior to diving into the topic of the hour, special guest Roy Ritthaler , VP, Marketing, IT Operations Management, will provide a short update of the New, Combined Micro Focus – post merger with HPE Software.

We’re all accustomed to transferring money from one bank account to another; a credit to the payer becomes a debit to the payee. But that model uses a specific set of sophisticated techniques to accomplish what appears to be a simple transaction. We’re also aware of how today we can order goods online, or reserve an airline seat over the Internet. Or even simpler, we can update a photograph on Facebook. Can these applications use the same models, or are new techniques required?

One of the more important concepts in storage is the notion of transactions, which are used in databases, financials, and other mission critical workloads. However, in the age of cloud and distributed systems, we need to update our thinking about what constitutes a transaction. We need to understand how new theories and techniques allow us to undertake transactional work in the face of unreliable and physically dispersed systems. It’s a topic full of interesting concepts (and lots of acronyms!). In this webcast, we’ll provide a brief tour of traditional transactional systems and their use of storage, we’ll explain new application techniques and transaction models, and we’ll discuss what storage systems need to look like to support these new advances.

And yes, we’ll explain all the acronyms and nomenclature too.

You will learn:

•A brief history of transactional systems from banking to Facebook
•How the Internet and distributed systems have changed and how we view transactions
•An explanation of the terminology, from ACID to CAP and beyond
•How applications, networks & particularly storage have changed to meet these demands

The rapid adoption of enterprise cloud-based solutions brings data integration as one of the greatest challenges. The challenge grows on increasingly numerous SaaS applications with lack of suitable connectors that fit your business needs. Join this webinar led by Primitive Logic team to see how data integration can be simplified for your cloud. This talk introduces the generic declarative zero-coding approach using Informatica Cloud Rest Connector as an example and illustrates its practical features, as well as best practices and hidden gems.

Cloud Security Protection is improving, but how can we protect against Evolving Security Threats? How can we win?

In this session we will delve into some of the security risks associated with cloud environments and what can be done to protect your applications and data that reside in the cloud by utilizing a new technology known as Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) as well as encryption and tokenization.

Join Ulf Mattsson, CTO of Atlantic BT, and his special guests David Morris, Security Scorecard, and Juanita Koilpillai, CEO, Waverley Labs, in this dynamic panel discussion and live Q&A.

What's next in the minds of organizations today after embarking on the Cloud hype?

Join this webinar to learn about Cloud Integration core concepts, strategies, evolution and adoption. We will review software-defined functional architecture, what's available in the marketplace, considerations, and where to start.

Cloud Integration is the process of configuring multiple cloud applications in a network enterprise and third party software. Adoption of such integrations have become critical in defining the success of organizations of all shapes and types.

Adoption to Cloud Integration allows businesses to unify functions in building unique understandings and capabilities creating opportunities in realizing value. Cloud Integration that’s offered as Software as a Service (SaaS) model is a thriving marketplace with connectors for APIs, data, security, monitoring, performance and business process management functions to name a few.

This presentation reviews core concepts around integration, Strategies, the iPaaS (integration platform as a service) buzz, how evolution of adoption is mashed by marketplace and provide an approach to defining value of integration for efficiency and business alignments.

The “cloudification” or the “softwareization” of Telco networks are revolutionizing the products & solutions in more ways than we could have ever planned for. The impending arrival of IoT with its reliance on the cloud further exacerbates these challenges. With it come increasing opportunities not only for products but services.

Data centers got virtualized with Compute virtualization by way of hypervisors, Storage by way of Software Defined Storage & network by way of Software Defined Networking. Telco networks are following suit with the advent of NFV but the professional services associated with it remain manual & labour intensive. The services ecosystem need to go through a disruptive innovation as well, leveraging on aspects such as automate & reuse (adopt design ONCE deploy MANY times paradigm)
This notion of treating Professional Services (PS) as an entity which can be built once, refined many times & can be shared across projects as though they were “code” is what we are calling as Programmable Professional Services or Software Defined Services.

This webinar focusses on the following aspects:
- Outline the challenges faced by external customers and internal organization in the realm of Telco & Converged Cloud Data Centers
- Provide an overview of our new Data Center services portfolio driven by centralized tools and automation, catering to all phases during the lifespan of Telco data centers such as design, build, operate, optimize & maintain
- Provide an overview of a new way of adopting the DevOps methodology in the professional services realm to provide industrialized service development and delivery by way of templatization of work packages, automating the execution of these templates on Telco data center components.

As the Enterprise makes its big push to Public Cloud, it is quickly realized that the current state of legacy ITIL processes simply can't keep up. To ensure your hybrid cloud solution is maintained within the defined boundaries of compliance and security, a combination of continuous monitoring and an action driven compliance engine is required. Optimization can be obtained through similar tools and methodologies... Join this webcast to find out how!

About the Speaker:
Thomas is a 20 year veteran CIO and technology leader of the General Electric Company. Most recently Thomas was the Head of Application Transformation tasked with moving 9000 legacy workloads to public and private cloud infrastructure. Thomas tackled widely diverse and complex workload requirements across different GE business units. He worked closely with leading public and private cloud providers to identify and implement transformational strategies, methods and tools to achieve cloud adoption goals. Thomas has been a leading evaluator, adopter and advocate of innovative tools and emerging technology that drive effective operation of cloud infrastructure at scale.

Since leaving GE in 2017, Thomas has dedicated his efforts to helping companies and technologists by sharing his in-depth expertise and insights related to large scale enterprise adoption, application migration and management of cloud technologies.

According to Pulse, over 84% of Digital Transformation efforts are failing. Companies are worried about how they balance legacy systems while keeping pace with new nimble players in the Cloud Era.

How do you overcome the traditional silos between IT and the business to achieve success in Digital Transformation? What are the challenges politically, technically, and operationally that need to be overcome to turn your cloud vision into transformation reality?

Join our host Jeanne Morain, Author & Cloud/Digital Strategist and her special guests Aditya Vasudevan, Co-Founder, appOrbit and Chris Orlando, Co-Founder & Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, ScaleMatrix, as they explore the top 5 challenges and solutions both they and/or their customers have faced to achieve success in Digital Transformation, both from an IT and a business management perspective.

Security and privacy continue to be the primary concerns for any enterprise considering cloud adoption. Traditional security technologies have failed to keep pace with the rapidly changing cloud architecture resulting in sub-optimal protection for cloud infrastructure.

It is time to look at emerging technologies such as Blockchain & Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) to reclaim cyber security and build robust architectures which are resilient to cyber-attacks.
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Key takeaways:

With more than 16 years of experience in the area of Cyber Security, IT Governance, Risk & Compliance and IT Infrastructure, Narayan is an entrepreneur & an innovative thought leader responsible for strategizing, implementing and maturing Risk Management & Cyber Security.
He has co-founded Block Armour – a blockchain based cyber security product startup. Prior to founding Block Armour, he worked with National Stock Exchange (NSE) as Head – IT Risk & Compliance & CISO.
He has been a visionary and driving force in building NSE’s IT Risk Management strategic plan, roadmap, methodology, policies, organizational model, staffing, governance, and reporting from the ground up.
Narayan is a well-known speaker at various national and international conferences where he shares his passion, views & concerns on Cyber Security.
He is on the advisory board of the Cyber Security Research Institute (UK) and member of several security forums.

Automated configuration management has been one of the biggest enablers in cloud transformation in the past. By using automated configuration management tools and techniques organizations have been able to provision and configure new environments, servers and applications into use quickly to respond to changed needs. During the past couple of years containers have become an increasingly popular way to deploy applications and services. When applications are deployed using container technologies, what is the role of configuration management? This talk takes a look into configuration management, what is was before and what it is becoming in the new container era.

The moment an organization starts making a move to Cloud, the way they look at their security changes as well. A traditional security operation is more focused towards a bunch of solutions such as Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Anti-Malware, etc. Security Operations in the cloud is more about following the pragmatic approach. It is about using effectively the huge set of already available resources in the cloud to effectively harden, monitor and defend cloud infrastructures and applications.

Join Vandana Verma, Manager of Global Information & Application Security, Pegasystems, will discuss creating and managing a successful defensive security program in the cloud. Her talk will be geared towards public cloud infrastructures in AWS.

It's not a secret anymore that cloud facilitates digital transformation and that many companies are happily embracing it - slower or faster, it really depends on the IT infrastructure already in place. What remains a mystery though, is what's next?

BrightTALK has invited experts to discuss what is the cloud of the future and which trends are worth your attention to stay ahead of the game.

In over 400 interviews with IT decision makers, the Taneja Group learned that an increasing number of organizations want not just to store files in the cloud, but to easily move those files between the cloud and on-premise.

In response, the Taneja Group has identified an emerging set of storage products they call “multi-cloud primary storage” that can span multiple environments. One of the vendors at the forefront of this trend is Qumulo, whose “universal-scale storage” product, Qumulo File Fabric (QF2), allows cloud instances and computing nodes on standard hardware to work together to form a single, unified file fabric.

Join Taneja Group Senior Analysts Jeff Kato and Jeff Byrne as they discusses the research behind the Taneja Group’s Multi-Cloud Primary Storage report. They will be joined by Qumulo employee Justin Mahood, who will describe why the “universal-scale” of QF2 is the best way to store files in the cloud and on-premise.

Cloud computing is a general concept that incorporates software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and other recent well-known technology trends in which the common theme is reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users.

This channel features presentations by thought leaders who cover the key topic areas in this increasingly important field.